1. Crime and Punishment Parts I -IV

2. Questions What main themes do you discern? Pick out a recurrent motif What characters do we meet? Which is your favourite character? Which scene or passage do you find the most striking?

3. Some Themes Rationalism vs irrationalism The alienation of the individual in contemporary society Religious faith Murder Suicide Death The need to suffer Sexuality Love Sickness and death Sanity and insanity The legal system

4. Some Motifs Money Clothing Jewelry Insects animals Smells Food Drink Tobacco The church

5. Intertextuality References to other works of literature Parallels with other texts you have read

6. Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov His name: 1. raskolot’ ‘to cleave’, ‘to chop’, ‘to split’ 2. Raskól - ‘schism’ (religious) The raskolniks were a sect of “Old Believers” – a peasant sect Typical Russian “intelligent” – rude, violent, lack of personal hygiene, seeks to improve society through violence, bloodshed, terror Description: One/1 (pp. 6-7)

7. Raskolnikov’s ideas His utopian project for cities: One/6 (pp. 89-90) His article on Crime Three/5 (pp. 306- 316) Two categories of human beings (309) Right to step across obstacles (308) “step over a dead body, over a pool of blood.” (310) “New Jerusalem” God and the Resurrection of Lazarus (310-311)

8. Raskolnikov’s realization Three / 6 (325-326) “The real overlord…” “I killed the principle” Raskolnikov’s dream: Three / 6 (pp. 328-330)

9. Dmitry Prokofievich Razumikhin Razumikhin from razum – ‘intelligence’ Vrazumikhin – from Russ. Vrazumit’: ‘to bring to senses’ Luzhin misnames him Rassudochkin from rassudok (logic, rationality) Energetic, hardworking

10. Sonya Marmeladova Paradox of virtue and ‘vice’: how can one remain chaste and be a prostitute Sonya (from Sophia – “wisdom” St Sophia was the mother of three daughters Faith, Hope and Love) One of a ‘paradigm of prostitutes’ in the novel The path of degradation and destruction First description: Two/7 (pp. 220-221)

11. Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov Marmelad: Jellied candy Is bringing a cookie for the children when he is killed Is he a good or a bad person? Sonya has learned to read the Bible from him

12. Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova Three children: Polya, Lyonya, Kolya Archetypical widow dying of tuberculosis

13. Alyona Ivanovna Widow, pawnbroker, plans to leave her wealth to monastery Sister Lizaveta (pious, always pregnant!)

14. SECONDARY CHARACTERS

15. Arkady IvanovichSvidrigailov Description Three/4 (p. 290) Pure sexual pleasures:

16. Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin Possible significance of first name and patronymic? Luzhin – ‘puddle’